Demand Planner

Real Dairy Australia (RDA) is an Australian owned business with locations and manufacturing facilities throughout Australia (Queensland, NSW, Victoria) with the head office located at Greenacre. RDA is a world class supplier of dairy-based products, services and solutions to the retail, foodservice and food ingredients markets.

With a track record of success in demand forecasting in FMCG, you will thrive in a fast-paced environment. Our perfect team member will have a high attention to detail, someone who can build partnerships across the business to influence and negotiate to drive good planning and business outcomes. You will have a proven ability to generate actionable insights from data and highlight risk and opportunity areas for the business to pursue.

The Role:

• Develop and maintain demand forecasting models based on historical data, industry trends, and customer input covering a rolling 24 month horizon for all items in the portfolio
• Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Production teams to gather and analyse data on market trends, customer demand, and product performance.
• Ensure that the Sales team are aligned with the Demand Plan
• Collaborate with Key customers to align forward plans (promotions, seasonality, events) at both the demand ands sales plan levels.
• Ensure that the plan is correctly shared with our supply chain partners across manufacturing sites.
• Perform analytical analysis on future trends and build models/scenarios in line with forward strategic vision of the sales team and customers.
• Utilise forecasting tools and techniques to predict customer demand and market trends
• Identify and address potential demand and supply issues proactively
• Generate reports and provide insights to support decision-making process

Key functions:

• Specifications
• Analysing
• Reporting
• Optimisation
• New Production implementation
• Process improvement
• Communication between departments
• Stakeholder engagement

The Person:

• To succeed, you'll have a solid Demand Planning background in an FMCG environment (ideally gained within a food manufacturing environment) and tertiary qualifications relevant to supply chain or manufacturing systems will be highly regarded
• Previous experience with Microsoft Dynamics preferred but not essential
• Intermediate Excel skills
• You'll already have what it takes to manage data, putting your analytical skills to use, whilst also refining and improving our processes.
• The right person must be thorough and detailed, with a high level of relationship building and influencing skills.
• With your keen eye for detail and process improvement mindset, you'll be able to spot growth opportunities and proactively manage risks
• Flexible approach to work with the ability to solve problems in a time pressured environment and reorganise work plans to manage conflicting priorities
• Strong sense of urgency and decisiveness
• Ability to work effectively in a team
• Strong interpersonal and planning skills
• Excellent communication and influencing skills